GDPR-Compliant Cloud Architecture: A Reference Design for UK and EU Applications
A reference design for GDPR-compliant cloud applications in the UK and EU: controls by layer, data residency and transfers, data subject rights, AI…
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27 articles in Cloud, DevOps & Azure
Harshil Shah
Zero Trust Architecture on Azure: Entra ID, Private Endpoints and Network Controls
Design Azure application access across Entra ID, Conditional Access, workload permissions and private endpoints. Includes trust boundaries, threat scenarios and a validation checklist.
Hetal K
Azure vs AWS for Enterprise Application Hosting: Services, TCO and Decision Framework
Compare Azure and AWS enterprise hosting through workload compatibility, service families, operating responsibilities and a transparent TCO example. Includes a .NET decision framework.
Savita Baldha
Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments: Release Strategies, Rollback and Monitoring
Compare blue-green and canary deployments through release topology, failure budgets, database compatibility and monitoring gates. Includes worked examples and a recovery checklist.
Harshil Shah
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform vs Bicep for Azure Enterprise Deployments
Compare Terraform and Bicep for Azure enterprise deployments by resource scope, state ownership, governance and maintainability. Includes a cost worksheet and pilot selection…
Mansukh Marakana
Azure DevOps vs GitHub Actions for Enterprise CI/CD
Compare Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions for enterprise .NET delivery. Review governance, deployment identity, agents and runners, migration effort and pilot acceptance tests.
Jainam Shah
Kubernetes Autoscaling Explained: HPA, VPA and KEDA for Production Workloads
Compare HPA, VPA and KEDA by control-loop responsibility. Includes an illustrative HPA manifest, architecture diagram, load-test plan and production troubleshooting checklist.
Vedant Virani
Azure Cost Optimization Guide: Rightsizing, Reservations and FinOps Practices
Reduce Azure cost with attribution, tested rightsizing and suitable commitments. Includes a transparent fictional cost model, downloadable offline planner and savings-validation checklist.
Harshita Pipaliya
Azure Service Bus Queues vs Topics: Ordering, Dead Letters and Scaling
Choose Service Bus queues or topics by consumer obligation. Covers settlement, session ordering, dead-letter repair and scaling with a reference diagram and recovery…
Manisha Sheladiya
Azure API Management vs Application Gateway vs Front Door: Differences
Compare Azure API Management, Application Gateway and Front Door by responsibility. Includes policy placement, architecture patterns, a decision flow and security validation checks.
Vimisha K
Azure Landing Zone Architecture: Networking, Identity and Governance Checklist
Design an Azure landing zone with clear platform and workload responsibilities. Covers subscriptions, identity, networking, policy, logging and cost guardrails with an acceptance…
Hetal K
Event-Driven Architecture Explained: Kafka vs Azure Service Bus vs Event Grid
Compare Kafka, Service Bus, Event Grid and Event Hubs with practical event-driven patterns, delivery semantics, recovery controls and architecture decisions.
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